Thank you so much!

I'm trying to take a picture (.bmp, .jpg, .png) and put some nice effects on it, but I can't because the object isn't a path of course. How do I make my way around to convert that picture into a fully operatable, path picture. I really don't want to draw it by hand : (. Basically, I want to be able ...

You need to be running a copy of the development version from SVN. If your on windows, you can download one from the downloads page on the inkscape site, if your on linux, you'll probably have to compile your own. there are instrctions for that on the site too. I can't seem to find the SVN version ...